Automobile



April -1o, 192s. 1,665,974

L. NYCZ AUTOMOBILE Filed on, 26. 1926 B Sheet S -Sheet 1 HTTOFIYEY.

. April 10, 192s. 1,665,974

L. NYCZ AUTOMOBILE Filed Oct. 26. 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 i J/l/Y/AE N 70/? Arm/Mfr- 7 ing formed therein the crank bends 12 and '13, while. mounted adjacent shaft 8 I have mitting power in automobiles with greater. control of these elements on the part of, the

Patented Apr. 10, 1928.

AUTOMOBILE. i i I, l .7

LOUIS NYCZ, OF BINGHAMTON, new YoRK:

Application filed October 26, 1926. Serial no; 144,373.

12. Shaft 8 carries sprockets 16,16, which My inventionirelates to improvements in automoblle vehicles particularly tothe pow er transmissive means employed in such vehicles. p r ,I

One 'ob ect of my invent onis to-provide improved means: for generating and trans operator.

With these objects in view, my invention consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts, as will i 'be hereinafter described and pointed out in the'cIaim. Reference being bad to the ac: companying drawings in which;

Fig. 1, is a side view of my device. Fig. 2, is a planview of the chassis of an 1 I automobile with my device adapted thereto.

Fig. "3, is a front elevation of an automobile carrying my device.

Fig. 4, is a plan view slightlyenlarged of the gear shifting portion of my device.

'. Fig. 5, is a side view of a of my invention.

The same reference'characters denote like parts'in each of' the several figures of the drawings.

- In carrying'out my invention I have shown B the automobile frame A and in any convenient position,.in reference to it, I have shown the battery C. In the engine body B, I provide the spark plugs 3, 3, which may be con- I nected by wiring with the battery C. Within the engine B, I have the piston rods 4, 4,

reciprocating horizontally, instead .of vertically, as. in the usual type of automobile power generating units. Thru the engine B, passes the shaft 5, on which I have mounted the pulleys 6, 6 and also the fans 7, 7, while journalled on the frame A, is the crank shaft 8. Shaft 8 is bent to form the crank bends 9 and 10. the piston rods 4, 4' being pivotally coupled therewith in any convenient manner. Mounted, in the frame 'A, I also have the rear axle 11, havauxiliary' shaft 25, having formed therein crank bends 26 and 27, and connecting crank bend 27 with bend 13' in shaft 11, I have i f connecting rod 15. In a similar manner connecting rod 14 connects. crank bands 26 and are connected-withsprockets 6, 6 by means of chains 17, 17. Mounted'loosely on shaft 8, I have the gears 18,18, meshing with gears 21 fixed to shaft 19, mounted in frame A, in any convenient-manner, and fiXed to. shaft 25, I provide gears 28,28,1neshing with the-gears 18on shaft 8. The hubs of -sprockets 16 and 20 are 'divided to form clutches '16 and 20 operated bymeans ofpivoted lever 29, connected by lever 22 tocross'arm- 23, mounted on upright shaft 24, the rotation ofwhichcauses the clutches tofen'gage and disengage. a j V Z In the operation of my device, having started the motor B, thus. causing piston rods4 to reciprocate and rotate haft, .8

which does not however rotate gears 18 due to their beingfloosely fitted thereon, Ithen turn the operating shaft 24 to position shown in Fig. 4, whichfcau'sesrclutch 16,

which is secured to shaft 8, to-engage and .75

rotate gears 18. v Rotation 0f gears 18, through gears 28 meshing therewith, causes :rotation of shaft 25 and reciprocation. of f rods 14 and 15 ,connected to rear axle 11.

Gear 21 and shaft 19 of course rotate with gears 18. .Sprock'et 20 is loosely fitted on shaft 19. When control shaft 24 is rotated inthe opposite direction, clutch 20 is engaged. Sprocket 20 now being clutchedto shaft 19 and rotated by chain 17 causes shaft 19 on which is fixed gear 21 to drive gear 18, fitted loosely on shaft 8,'in a direction opposite 'to that previously driven.

Through gears 18 gears 28-are also driven in a direction the" reverse of that previously followed. This of course causes the con-,. necting rods .14 and 15rto drivev the axle 11 in the opposite direction;v A neutral point;

during which neither clutch is engaged is utilized when the the car.

desire Letters'Patent is as follows:

Ina power transmission means, acrank shaft driven by. piston rodsqand carry ng operator desires to stop Having described my invention, what I claim asqnew and useful, and for which the idler sprockets; clutches capable of congage one set of clutches and disengage the necting the idler sprockets and the shaft other set simultaneously or to soneutralize gears secured to the shaft which continu0usthe clutches that movement of V the vehicle 10 1y mesh with the aforementioned idler is stopped.

5 gears; drive gears meshing with the idler In testimony whereof I have affixed my gears and fixed to a driving shaft connected signature. to the axle of, the vehicle; means to en- LOUIS NYCZ. 

